Port of Tacoma

The Port of Tacoma in 2015 teamed up with the Port of Seattle to form the Northwest Seaport Alliance, which allows the two to cooperate on marketing efforts and their future development to better spend limited funds needed to modernize their container terminals so they can handle mega-ships plying the trans-Pacific trades.

A US Federal Maritime Commission public notice on Tuesday sparked erroneous reports that Maersk was still unable to access its customer contract database due to the Not Petya virus that spread through computers worldwide on June 27.